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chris87654 - Wednesday at 1:44 AM:"We need a $1 per round tax on ammo to pay for armed guards at schools."*********************The vast majority of ammo does not cost $1 per round. To suggest a tax that exceeds the value of the product is ridiculous. Also, to suggest that one group of people [gun owners] foot the entire bill for armed guards is unfair and also ridiculous.

How about we impose a fine on all violent criminals, so they're paying for the school guards? Maybe make it a license. They'd have to renew it each year. Problem is, how do we get them to follow that law, since by definition they ignore laws? And if we can find them & force them to pay the fine for being violent criminals, why can't we force them to stop being criminals?

None of thee things would have had anything to do to stop Conn. why are we burdening 100 million gunowers with worthless law,s that do nothing. The term assault weapon is meaningless. What does a pistol grip, flash suppressor, movable stock have to do with anything? Smaller magazines, tape them together like we did in VietNam. Change magazines if shooting. Take away all guns? People will use Molotov cocktails, machetes. Hutsi's killed 800,000 Tutus with machetes. Want to stop school massacres, hire security for all public buildings and eliminate gun free zones. Killers pay no attention to those signs except to let them know that they can shoot up free. Want to accomplish something, let us check out the connection between side effect laden anti-depressants and violent movies/TV/games. People cheer and feel good when they mow down thousands fo people with guns on TV.

Sure it would have helped - but ONLY in this case because Lanza had multiple 30-round magazines and was able to cut down the two adults without having to reload. The Aurora shooter's gun jammed (cheap Chinese 100-round drum???), otherwise he'd have kept going.

Chris - you are aware, aren't you, that Columbine happened during the last "assault weapon" ban, with a ban-compliant firearm and ban-compliant magazines... 17 of them? Changing a magazine takes at most a couple seconds. And yes, the higher-capacity magazines do tend to jam.

New York and California, two liberal states known for extreme knee-jerk reactions to any crisis, especially if it involves firearms in any form or manner. Create more laws, create more criminals, fail to apply the existing laws as written, and plea bargain, turning the courts into a business for than a place of justice.

The fact that lawmakers, pundits and activists calling for stricter gun regulations aren't simultaneously calling for stricter regulations on drinking and driving, tells me their agenda is strictly an ideological anti-gun stance. This is not lost on gun owners, and pro-gun lobbyists; ******* down someone's back, and telling them it's raining just doesn't work.

What difference does it make how much ammo I buy ? Do you know how heavy it is? So that clown in Colorado had 6,000 rounds. Big deal ! Like anything else, you save money buying in bulk and online. Easy to go through 300 rounds at a range session. If you compete in pistol/rifle/shotgun matches you may very well go through a thousand rounds a week practicing. You idiots who know nothing about firearms or the shooting sports have no buisness dictating to law abiding citizens. Back in the 80s there was a push to ban "Murdercycles". Remember that ? Gun control is nothing but punishing those who voted against Obama. You going to ban bicycles, cell phones, or impose a 50 mph national speed limit. Think of the children !

If the journal really cared about the adorable white children in the picture, they would demand police enforce our current laws. Feel good legislation that makes law abiding citizens criminals will do nothing to solve the issues we have with wackos killing innocent people. Perhaps we should return to thou shall not kill, and teach it to our children instead of infesting them with violence, sex, and 'if it feels good, do it' mentality sprayed on us constantly from TV, radio, movies, music, newspapers, and video games.

OMG silvermaple, you've hit upon a very very good valid point!! When rich little white kids are shot and killed this country must take action NOW. But heaven forbid anything is done when this type of warfare is played out in the streets of Chicago among young poor black children or Detroit for another example. It just goes to show how "white" Odumba really is. Guns are a right for every law abiding citizen and that right shall not be infringed upon: guns don't discriminate: our government is: so why are law abiding citizens being discriminated against?

You are nuts... no one's saying people aren't allowed to own guns unless they're crazy. The only reason I think you people keep saying this (infringing..) is because so many of you seem REAL close to tipping over the rainbow.

When will those of you who write "articles" like this start to think about why incidents happen in places like Newtown, Oak Creek, Aurora and the rest. Her it is for all of you in the cheap seats- THEY HAPPEN BECAUSE WELL-ADJUSTED PEOPLE LIKE TO KILL. There has never been a mass-killing by someone who fits this category.

WHY DOES DOES IT SEEM RIGHT THAT THE VAST MAJORITY IS BEING PENALIZED FOR THE ACTIONS OF A SMALL MINORITY?